Free as a Dodo: UK Politics Welcomes 2021

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commiserations on having to experience the dry run for the queen’s death

luckily we have our left-leaning daily newspaper over here to remind us that “Phil the Greek” was universally loved for being a cheeky fellow.

Im not louis allday im louis for the 8-4 shift

I mean just look at this

Billboards in London showing pictures of Prince Philip. Christ. pic.twitter.com/SeLaMHzaVf

— REDDEAN (@MarxistDean) April 9, 2021

pure dystopia

no i'm the one doing a deep-dive!

― imago, Saturday, 10 April 2021 bookmarkflaglink

Better luck next time.

xps

tankie is thrown around way too freely these days so here's a useful guide

tankies: louis allday, xi jinping, vladimir putin, henry kissinger

not tankies: me, AOC, chinese maoists, donald trump (maybe)

polling time!

I can report there are no Royal tributes in the Kurdish food shops on Green Lanes, at least not as yet.

itt: tankie policing

More blank than tank

there is this gold-standard flag-fucker down the road from me with a big union jack hoisted to a proper fucking flag pole of the type you'd see on govt buildings or outside an embassy, none of this b+q shit! I was passing earlier and noticed it isn't even at half mast. I might attempt a citizen's arrest on them later.

All the bus stops with electronic advertising hoardings in Glasgow town centre this morning had a Phil memorial notice. I genuinely have no idea how people here feel about the 'Duke of Edinburgh', but it seemed a bit arselicking to me.

I don't think they're any fonder of him in Edinburgh!

Good job there won't be any fans at Celtic Park today for the minute's silence.

Jookie Embra, RIP Big Man

Westminster voting intention:

CON: 45% (+4)
LAB: 36% (-1)
LDEM: 6% (-)
GRN: 4% (-1)

via @OpiniumResearch, 08 - 09 Apr
Chgs. w/ 26 Mar

— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) April 10, 2021

Might start watching Line of Duty, like my fellow leftists

Greetings, fellow leftists

that psycho rogue armed cop in season 3 who drinks still mineral water in the pub, bullies his subordinates and executes a suspect cause he felt like it - well yeah Kieth would have definitely had his back!

TBF he had a troubled past.

aye it was a tough and troubling existence growing up a devout socialist in the tory heartlands of Surrey and attending a middling to above average posh grammar school with Norman Cook!

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at least Kieth's "vapid response" game is progressive. By the time the Queen kicks the bucket he'll in be in there at least an hour before the Tories with a gushing boilerplate obit.

"TBF he had a troubled past."

I think the first ep of season 3 is as far as I've got so far, will finish off that season at some point.

Can't see Queenie popping off before about 2027 myself, by which time Starmer will be a footnote anyway most likely.

Better not, Line of Duty's on at 2100

Lillibet might need to be reminded it is would be a very commendable last selfless act of public service by her to put off that descent into a self-destructive death-spiral of boozing and chemsex addiction, at least until Line of Duty Season 6 has finished.

You never know, the Queen might die of a broken heart... aye, right.

What a brilliant idea of universal free broadband giving everybody equal access to communication and information. My information is that it is very popular.

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) April 10, 2021

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look if the Windsors had a shred of decency they'd keep dying off after the other in short order until we get a day off

of course

Asked if he would describe Meghan Markle’s treatment in the mainstream press as “racist”, Keir Starmer says “I wouldn’t.” pic.twitter.com/sLzo9nFoQe

— Liam Young (@liamyoung) April 11, 2021

that sounds like something a racist would say

i want bad things to happen to this man

Who was doing the asking, anyone?

public service broadcaster giving the paedo a platform to eulogise the racist. fuck britain

legally approved ethnic cleansing. details worse than the headline. fuck britain x2

A tribunal has ruled that a Filipino woman & her 2 sons can be evicted for having a "less durable connection with the area" than her landlord's daughter, who's moving in.

Yep, they really said the quiet part out loud.

My exclusive for @novaramedia: https://t.co/Dnvbt96s3M

— Rivkah Brown (@RivkahBrown) April 11, 2021

b-b-b-but some landlords are really nice people it's only 99.9% of them that confirm they are an enemy class scum of the earth that need wiping out.

another "politically homeless" person

Can’t live in council housing because the waiting list is 14 years. Cant rent private housing because they don’t accept people on universal credit . Cool

— 💯 (@wank_666) April 10, 2021

Lol I wondered why Labour weren't making that much of a fuss about it. https://t.co/ZA61CxDO2I

— Lex Greensleaze (@misslucyp) April 11, 2021

a very constructive and forensic lol!

Keir Starmer says the monarchy is “the one institution for which the faith of the British people has never faltered.”

what a formidable self-clowning game, talk like a simpering fucking idiot because everyone is stupid!

"what was the english civil war" might be one for that Keir Starmer googling account

lol xp King Charles I of England's headless ghost would like a word with Keith

Besides the English revolution and republic, may people were extremely lukewarm - to say the least - about the institution of monarchy during the reigns of George III and IV, James II, and more tbh

How many assassination attempts did Victoria survive again?

Honestly this guy is such a dimwit he can't even get his phoney baloney attempts at patriotism right.

and not a word about the totp reruns. feeling politically homeless right now.

Kieth once said Harold is his fave Labour PM. At least he could play the royal brown-nosing game without sounding like such an obsequious moron or at least not as much as one!

Wilson seems like such a bastion of old Labour values now which is much more a reflection of how far the Party's fallen than it is on Wilson

Plus he was a daddy, not a sad centrist stepdad

He was good at politics.

Very unlike KS.

In fairness, it was specifically within Philip's lifetime that the quote referred to - it might still need an asterisk for Diana and Andrew, mind.